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cb the Park. It was a series of photos and plastic molds of foot imprints of people who had devoted themselves to fighting the AIDS epidemic. My footprint was up there along with Angelina Joli, Brad Pitt, Whoopie Goldberg, Larry Kramer, Bono and a large number of other notables. Dec. 31, 2005 - Carol Kuntz took Chris, me and the girls on a private tour of the West Wing. It was terrific. I got an interesting new perspective of the place since I have been there so many times over the past several years that I take it for granted and never really "look around". It was great to have a personal tour and take my time looking at rooms and furniture, some of which I have sat in when briefing the POTUS and others. Jan. 4, 2006 - Met with David Rubenstein, Founder and CEO of The Carlyle Group. He made me an amazing offer to join the firm as head of a Medical Venture Capital component of the Group. Compensation projected to be in the millions per year with a base salary of $1 million! Obvious question is whether I want to get out of the classical scientific/public servant arena. Jan. 26-29, 2006 - Attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to participate in 2 events: 1) a dinner panel discussion on Pandemic Influenza and 2) a plenary panel moderated by Ira Flatow (NPR - "Science Friday") on Pandemic Influenza. Other panel members included David Nabarro of WHO, David Stout of Glaxo-Smith Klein, the Minister of Health of Spain. The meeting was unexpectedly enjoyable in that I went to "close-up" panel discussions, breakfasts etc with people like President Muschaaraf of Pakistan, President Karzai of Afghanistan, Bill Gates, Bono, Queen Rana of Jordan, Bill Clinton, a number of journalists, etc. I was particularly impressed by leaders such as Karzai and Muschaaraf. The activity and press interest in Pandemic Flu has calmed down somewhat with other issues in the news (Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito confirmation, Iraq, the Hamas election victory in Palestine, etc.) Yet I still did a few CNN broadcasts from Davos. Feb 3, 2006 - Attended Distinguished Lecture Series at Hilton Hotel with Chris. Lecture by Bono to a crowd of several thousand in the Hilton Ballroom. Bono spoke about his vision, etc. He stopped during the talk to recognize me in the audience as a "hero" of his who has done an enormous amount for global HIV/AIDS, particularly in being the main player working with President Bush in developing PEPFAR. Then several times throughout the speech when he mentioned global health or AID he would look in my direction and mention my name saying something like "I am sure that Tony would agree that...." Bono has been incredibly generous to me in his public recognition of me. He also mentioned that the USA and the world should support his "One Campaign". Of note, Jenny (Fauci) is a leader among the Harvard students in the One Campaign efforts. Feb. 3 - March 6, 2006 - Continued intensive interest in the potential for an H5N1 pandemic influenza with several media appearances. Also, I testified on March 2, 2006 before the House Appropriations Subcommittee for Foreign Operations together with Julie Gerberding, Kent Hill (USAID) and Ambassador Nancy Powell (DoS). Did Diane Rehm show in addition to other media. Spent an 90 minute lunch briefing the